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I've never really had a problem with BigDecimal, after having had to write and use BCD libraries for C when doing tax software back in the day, I was pretty grateful to have something like that built in, but its good to see people are still thinking about it and trying to make things better.

I remember reading a discussion about BigDecimal's being a BigMistake some time back. The discussion was about why the engineers at Sun created them the way they did. I found the discussion quite interesting and am always reminded of it whenever I see, hear, or work with BigDecimals or Number types in Java.

This is definitely one of those topics that stick in your head and never go away. For those interested here it is, I've found it:
http://jroller.com/page/cpurdy?entry=the_seven_habits_of_highly1